CJ Carr's NFL Draft Outlook, Mechanics and Toughness

What's your thoughts, again, on C.J. Carter? There's a lot of people thinking that he's going to be a first-round draft choice before we get to the NFL. Some of your takeaways on him as a quarterback prospect. Yeah, I think he's a good prospect. I just think that he gets off balance a little bit. You know, it's an easy thing to fix. By that, I mean, you know, the shoulders aren't flat and he's bent. When he misses, those things in guys are easy to fix, make him real consistent with their accuracy. But I think he's got a real good future. Coach, how much, when you see a prospect coming out of college, for you, how much is that when you have to sit back and look at some of the technique that the guys have when they're in college, is a lot of the things that kids are doing in college, when you get them in the pros, how much do you really have to work on the mechanics of a player? Most of those guys are just inherently pretty accurate. You can make them much more consistent just by getting under control and balance and kind of groove them up a little bit. But the thing I always look at in guys coming out is their processing, how quick they see things and get rid of it, number one. Of course, how naturally accurate they are. Accurate under duress. Accurate when they're not in balance. Accurate when somebody's hanging on to them, those kinds of things. And those guys that are accurate in duress and will stand in and make throws under pressure. That's what the NFL is. So many times, it's just like Fields when he's at Ohio State. He was sacked like 55 times in one season or whatever ridiculous number that was. He just holds the ball. And that doesn't correlate to the NFL. You know, he's going to have problems. So those are the kinds of things you look at. You want to see guys just getting hammered and still making good throws. That's the one thing that made us fall in love with Kurt when I watched him in the Europe, you know, over there in the World League. He would just get shellacked. The guy just blasts him. He makes this miraculous throw down the field. Those guys are hard to find. Boy, I'll tell you, Coach, you mentioned one of the most important things for a roster and for a teammate, too. Every time I used to watch a quarterback get killed in the pocket, for me as my teammate, I'm like, that guy's standing in there, man. I'll tell you what, you see a lot of guys with happy feet, and to me, when you're a football team and you see your quarterback taking a beating back there and still delivering the ball and making big plays, that inspires a roster when you see that. How important is that intangible to a quarterback for you? Well, that kind of toughness, I mean, first of all, when things are going bad on the sideline, the first guy to look to is the head coach and the quarterback. If you don't think your guy's tough and up to handling those kinds of pressures and physically tough, it's hard because you're looking to him for answers when things get really nasty. And when you know a guy's tough like that, he's going to hang in there and try and make throws and get splattered. It's a morale booster for sure. Situation, I had a wide receiver. I won't tell you who it was when he first came in. He was, you know, he wasn't really running his routes fast. Like, we practice at full speed, you know, and he wasn't doing that. And so I put him back at quarterback. Cause you stand back here, and it was a live pass rush, you be the quarterback. I want you to see what the quarterback sees. And you're lollygagging down the field, and he's waiting for you to come out of that route. Let's take a look at this. He just got hammered. Get a different perspective on what the quarterback goes through.